California § 14034 - Populations eligible to be served by grants include, but are not limited to, all

§ 14034. Populations eligible to be served by grants include, but are not limited to, all

Populations eligible to be served by grants include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) Youths who are at risk of disconnection or disconnected from the education system or employment. (b) Women seeking training or education to move into nontraditional fields of employment. (c) Displaced workers and long-term unemployed. (d) Low-wage workers. (e) Persons for whom English is not their primary language. (f) Economically disadvantaged persons. (g) CalWORKs participants. (h) Persons who are incarcerated and soon to be released or formerly incarcerated. (i) Armed services veterans. (j) Native Americans. (k) Migrants or seasonal farmworkers. (l) Persons with developmental or other disabilities. (m) Any other population with barriers to employment identified in subdivision (j) of Section 14005. (n) Immigrants. (o) Persons who reside in cities that are disproportionately impacted by violence or are enrolled in violence prevention or mitigation programs. (p) Persons who are victims of domestic violence or community violence. (q) Persons over 50 years of age who need retraining for in-demand skills. (r) Population groups with disproportionate numbers of people living in ZIP Codes of concentrated poverty. (s) Population groups that are disproportionately impacted by occupational segregation and who are underrepresented in jobs as defined by the Civil Rights Department in their enforcement of the California Equal Pay Act. (t) Populations that have been disproportionately impacted by unemployment, job interruption, and displacement during the pandemic. (u) Persons diagnosed with autism.